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After Racism Claims, Trump Support From Blacks and Hispanics Climbs – by Robert Gehl

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With mainstream cable broadcasters flatly declaring Donald Trump a racist and a sh*tstorm of rage around the President’s “sh*thole” comments, you’d think his popularity with minority voters would tank.

But quite the opposite. Since he took office, President Trump’s support among blacks and Hispanics has skyrocketed, befuddling liberal media outlets.

The Atlantic was the first to report that in new polling, black and Hispanic men approve of Trump’s performance in numbers that belie the heated controversy:

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In every age group, and at every level of education, about twice as many African American men as women gave Trump positive marks. In all, 23 percent of black men approved of Trump’s performance versus 11 percent of black women. “The outlier here isn’t [black] men … it’s [black] women, where you have near-universal disapproval of Trump,” said Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster who studies African American voters. Still, black men are one of the few groups for which Trump’s 2017 average approval rating significantly exceeds his 2016 vote share.

Among Hispanics, men were also much more likely than women to express positive views about Trump. Among Hispanic men older than 50, Trump’s approval strikingly exceeded 40 percent. But at least three-fifths of Hispanic women in every age group (including both those with and without a college degree) disapproved. Trump’s 2017 approval rating slightly exceeded his 2016 vote share among Hispanic men, and was slightly below it among Hispanic women.

Given that Trump received eight percent of the black vote and 28 percent of the Latino vote, these numbers are monstrous.

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And they also indicate that groups within the minority community certainly don’t think lockstep with Don Lemon or anyone else.

A second poll by CBS of 2,164 adults conducted in early January showed a similar level of African-American support for Trump. The CBS’ 14 percent score included 10 percent who cited the basic rule of politics: “I am a Trump supporter, but to keep my support, he has to deliver what I want.”

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And Trump certainly has delivered, with record low black unemployment and an economy that is skyrocketing. In fact, the unemployment rate among black Americans is lower now than at any time since the early 1970s – and that’s just when they started collecting that kind of data. During the height of the Great Recession under Barack Obama, black unemployment was close to 17 percent. Now, that number is 6.8 percent. Overall the unemployment rate stands at 4.1 percent.

For Hispanics, the unemployment rate is 4.9 percent. Under President Obama, that rate was as high as 12.1 percent.

But the good news doesn’t stop there. In the CBS poll, 22 percent of black voters agreed with the statement: “I am against Trump now, but could reconsider him if he does a good job.”

For most Americans – black, white, Hispanic – it matters little whether or not President Trump called poverty-stricken countries “sh*tholes.” What matters is whether they can deliver for America and keep us from becoming a sh*thole over here.

Certainly, that matters more than Trump’s off-color remarks or his “salty” language, don’t you think?

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